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Juno with a Peacock
Factory:
Royal Porcelain Manufactory
Factory:
Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur
Modeller:
Müller, Johann Georg, modeller
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, pale mauve, a little red, shades of brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt; the base is open and the interior of the base and figure is glazed.
The base is in the form of a circular bank of clouds which rise up in the centre. Juno is seated with her right foot crossed over her left in front of the base. She has a ruddy cheeks, red lips, and slanting brown eyebrows. Her brown hair is piled up on top at the front, and hangs down her back from a white knot. She wears a pale mauve frontlet decorated with green jewel flanked by strings of white and gold beads. She is nude apart from a yellow and pink drape which is suspended from her shoulders at the back by a white strap with gold beading and a green and gold jewel at centre front. The yellow part of the drape is decorated with groups of four gold spots. She holds a gold sceptre in her right hand and holds her bent left arm up at waist level. A peacock with its tail closed is perched on the clouds on her left.
History note: Purchased from Nachelsohn's shop in King Street, St James's, London, on 19 January 1917 for £5 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.4 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Circa
1765
-
1785
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, pale mauve, a little red, shades of brown, grey, and black)
gold
Back To Front
Depth 11.5 cm
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, slip-cast, glazed, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, pale mauve, a little red, shades of brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilded
Glazing
Accession number: C.3176-1928
Primary reference Number: 74451
Old object number: 4581
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Juno with a Peacock" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74451 Accessed: 2024-12-18 19:22:25
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